De: Andrew Lih <andrew.lih(a)gmail.com>
Asunto: Re: [Foundation-l] WSJ on Wikipedia
Para: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Fecha: lunes, 23 de noviembre, 2009 22:49
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:28 PM,
David Moran <fordmadoxfraud(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I think a lot of attention is paid to the way the
technical interface is
hostile to newbies, and making that more
user-friendly
and democratic is
certainly a concern that needs to be addressed.
But
I think the tendency of
older users, or certain editorially minded users,
to
squat on the project
and bludgeon newer users with policy pages rolled
up
into sticks is just as
much if not more responsible for driving away the
new
users we need to
replenish our ranks.
At Wikimania 2009 it was noted there were declines across
different
language editions, which started happening at the same
time. This
suggest that it's not simply the "completeness" of a
particular
edition at play here, as the development cycle of each
different
language edition should be fairly distinct. Rather, the
sharp declines
across languages indicates it could be a platform feature
(ie.
software, policy, et al) or that there is an
interdependency across
the language groups or some other outlying variable.
The session at Wikimania about this:
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:221
I'll be doing a talk at SXSW 2010 about this next year, and
I welcome
any/all theories and what areas of research to pursue.
http://bit.ly/8Hh52
Thank you very much, Andrew for your comments.
I'm really afraid I won't be able to attend to SXSW 2010. But, I'll attend for
sure Wikimania 2010 next year, and I hope we'll have some time to reflect on these
issues.
Best,
Felipe.
-Andrew Lih
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